Harris, for the prosecution, pursues a predator

By Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg Opinion

Kamala Harris visited her campaign headquarters on Monday and delivered a key message.

Before becoming a U.S. senator and then vice president, Harris reminded the crowd, she was California’s attorney general and a courtroom prosecutor. “In those roles,” she said, “I took on perpetrators of all kinds: predators who abused women; fraudsters who ripped off consumers; cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So, hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type.”

Elections are about the future. In this election, pitting a female avatar of the multi-racial 21st century against an old white man’s reactionary expedition to the 19th century, the stakes for the future are especially clear, and terrifyingly high.

Harris will have to make the case for pluralism and freedom, civil rights and human dignity, against Trump’s authoritarian repression and its consequences for women, Black and Brown Americans and anyone who doesn’t conform to the white Christian nationalist hierarchy of preferred “real Americans.”

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